Des schmeckt....
March 1995 | ||
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| Zuenftig wars beim Skifoan! | ||
Getting some rest
March 1995 | ||
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| Lutz and PW resting a bit before heading on further down the mountain.... What started as a beautiful skiing day for us, with me skiing and them snowboarding, ended as hell for me when I had my first miserable attempts on the board. A whole 'Skigebiet' was laughing at me. | ||
Langlaufen
February 1996 | ||
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| Timi while cross-country skiing in Oberndorf. | ||
Skiing in Oberndorf
March 1997 | ||
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| This is Fraenk, Timi, PW and Martin on our skiing trip in Oberndorf a couple of years back. All of us look (and feel) pretty much miserable. The date is a guess ;-) | ||
D'Muata beim Langlaufa
2 January 2002 | ||
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| So I headed out to Austria to meet up with my parents in our house in Austria.... it was a bit too late for skiing, but I headed out to do some cross-country skiing.... | ||
Koasa
2 January 2002 | ||
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| The 'Wilder Kaiser' mountain range, which translates to 'wild emperor'.... | ||
Night-sledding
2 January 2002 | ||
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| After a yummy dinner (Schweinsbraten) cooked by my mum, we headed out to go night-sledding along the lit route in Oberndorf.... | ||
Home mountain
3 January 2002 | ||
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| On top of the Penzing mountain heading down towards Oberndorf.... | ||
Oberndorf
3 January 2002 | ||
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| Our village seen from the mountain above.... Our little house is at the edge of the forest, left to the middle.... In the hills above you see the mountain farms. Just a bit farther to the right of the picture is the one that belongs to Franz Beckenbauer. | ||
Heavenly Skiing
3 January 2002 | ||
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| Great conditions for skiing up on the black 'Seven' route.... | ||
Birthday Party
20 July 2002 | ||
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| So I arrived at my my mum's birthday party and was welcome by an Austrian family in the garden.... | ||
Tea in the Sahara
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Not quite.... | ||
Suddenly....
20 July 2002 | ||
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| ...traditional Austrian music was heard.... and a brass trio from the village that had already played at my mum's 50th ten years ago reappeared. | ||
Geburtstagsstandl
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Our birthday girl on the right.... | ||
Waltz
20 July 2002 | ||
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| My uncle Werner dancing a quick waltz with his baby sister.... | ||
More waltz
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Werner trying to show us that he hasn't lost his groove... | ||
Gablitzers
20 July 2002 | ||
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| My uncle Ger(har)d, aunt Christl and Kathi and Mathias (covered by Gerhard) | ||
Family Updates
20 July 2002 | ||
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| My aunt Edda, her boyfriend Herbert and my cousin Mathias updating each other about their lives.... | ||
Werner, Sylvia and Reini
20 July 2002 | ||
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| My uncle Werner, his friend Sylvia and my aunt Reingard.... | ||
Glasl Sekt
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Mama talking to one of the band members.... | ||
Reflection
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Reflections in the Tuba.... | ||
Cousins
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Mathias, Kathi, myself and Claudia... | ||
Serious Brothers
20 July 2002 | ||
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| I wanted a photo of the two.... As Gerd put his arm around Werner and both were smiling at me, I said 'Nono, I want you both to look serious!'... This is the outcome... Too serious, but what character faces the two have! | ||
That's Better!
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Then I told them that it was too serious and I changed my mind and wanted a happy photo again.... | ||
Flowers for the Birthday
20 July 2002 | ||
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| My mum got many flowers for her birthday.... This bouquet from Edda and Herbert was especially beautiful.... | ||
More Flowers
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Roses.... | ||
Master of the Grill
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Oli preparing the steaks for us.... | ||
Alpengluehen
20 July 2002 | ||
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| The Kitzbuehler Horn glowing red while sunset... | ||
Dinner
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Dinner outside in our little Nomad's tent.... | ||
Balloons at Night
20 July 2002 | ||
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| You can see the moon in the trees... | ||
Heide - the first 60 years
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Daddy prepared a short slideshow with highlights from my mum's first sixty years. Some amazing ones that I had never seen before were amongst them. | ||
Cousins
20 July 2002 | ||
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| The night came and we stayed on.... | ||
Still out....
20 July 2002 | ||
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| So we headed to the town's 'fab' local disco called Nightlife.... Foam parties, drinks called 'Horny Deer' - Geiler Hirsch - didn't keep us there for long, but good to have another drink nonetheless... | ||
Mathias and Claudia
20 July 2002 | ||
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| Mathias and Claudia... | ||
Pye Buam
21 July 2002 | ||
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| Partner look of the Pye Men.... | ||
Group Photo
21 July 2002 | ||
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| La grande familie... | ||
Day Two of the Feast
21 July 2002 | ||
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| At the Penzinghof, a great Austrian speciality restaurant.... | ||
D'Godentantn und da Godenbua
21 July 2002 | ||
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| Me and my aunt Edschi, who is also my godmother.... | ||
Reini und Werner
21 July 2002 | ||
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| My aunt and uncle at dinner.... As usual I just don't want to take any flash photos anymore... Natural light just looks so much nicer.... | ||
Kitzbuehler Horn
22 July 2002 | ||
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| The Kitzbuehler Horn in the summer... | ||
Closer Circle
22 July 2002 | ||
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| Most of the rest of the family left, leaving us to to the possibility of more intense discussions.... | ||
Entry into the Guestbook
22 July 2002 | ||
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| Sylvia making an entry into our Austrian guestbook - she wrote a funny short poem... | ||
Choir Chaos
22 July 2002 | ||
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| Gerhard was trying to arrange a little song with us.... Was a wish by my mum, but at midnight after a heavy dinner, it just couldn't work.... | ||
Freestyle
22 July 2002 | ||
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| Poor Gerhard, all that work for preparation... As he was packing the notes in, the girls started to sing without a conductor... | ||
Short walk
23 July 2002 | ||
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| Reingard had to go to the airport soon, so we had to cut the walk short.... | ||
Koasa
23 July 2002 | ||
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| The others already returned, but Gerhard and myself rushed yet ahead to get a view of the Koasa.... | ||
Butterfly Close-Up
23 July 2002 | ||
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| Favourite hobby in the Garden.... Closeups of Insects.... | ||
Butterfly and Ant
23 July 2002 | ||
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| A little ant looking into the camera as I was taking a photo of the butterfly.... | ||
Flowers
23 July 2002 | ||
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| Still life.... | ||
Roses and balcony flowers
23 July 2002 | ||
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| Our little house and some roses in the foreground.... | ||
Yet more Roses
23 July 2002 | ||
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| In the background the Kitzbuehler Horn and also our part of our skiing 'house-mountain' to the left... | ||
Hope for a Safe Landing
23 July 2002 | ||
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| With the paraglides, they jump off the Kitzbuehler Horn and float in the air for about 20 minutes.... | ||
Obi
30 August 2003 | ||
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| I came back to Germany for a night and then spent a night with Vreni, PW, Karin and Bernhard in Oberndorf. Sadly the weather was bad and we weren't able to do any walk or hike.... | ||
Fan
30 August 2003 | ||
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| Vreni taking a break while blowing at the fire as the extension cable for the hairdrier we could have used was too short... | ||
Fire and Zucchini
30 August 2003 | ||
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| Red and Green | ||
Red Wine and Karin
30 August 2003 | ||
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| ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..... | ||
Terrible Game
31 August 2003 | ||
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| Baernhard looking at the Game of Life. It was lying around and I knew I liked it as a kid so we should play it. We played until the bitter end. What a terrible game. Only kids like it because of the complex rules.... | ||
Enzian Closeup
31 July 2004 | ||
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| Great close-up shot of an Enzian... | ||
Summer time is Macro Time Pt. 4
31 July 2004 | ||
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Mountain Flowers
2 August 2004 | ||
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| At our little rock garden... | ||
Tyrolian Summer
12 June 2005 | ||
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| Lots of nice colors.... | ||
Kitzbuehler Horn
17 August 2005 | ||
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| With fog crawling up its neck.... | ||
Kitzbuehler Horn
17 August 2005 | ||
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| I have taken hundreds of photos of this - our house mountain... but I like the mood of this one, particularly... | ||
Dani relaxing....
17 August 2005 | ||
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| ...relaxing means for her to paint.... | ||
Alpengluehen
17 August 2005 | ||
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| The Glowing of the alps... Taken with 1200mm... | ||
Afterglow
17 August 2005 | ||
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| ....of the Kitzbuehler Horn... | ||
Meat Extravaganza
19 August 2005 | ||
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| Bernd in the candlelight after having eaten approx. 2 entire cows from the grill... Bernd, Carmen, Karin and Bernhard had come by for the weekend... | ||
Perfect Skiing Day
23 January 2006 | ||
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| With a huge carpet of clouds! Photo was taken with a phone.... | ||
Cloud Carpet
23 January 2006 | ||
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| I was kicking myself for forgetting my camera on this day. The second time I got up to this sight I remembered that I had my phone with me... | ||
Perfect Skiing
24 January 2006 | ||
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| With 30 cm fresh powder and in many places (not here) unprepared pistes this was the best Skiing I ever experienced, even topping Lake Tahoe's Champagne Snow... | ||
Harschbichl
24 January 2006 | ||
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| From the Top of the Skiing area here, often Paragliders are leaving... | ||
St. Johann
24 January 2006 | ||
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| In the background | ||
Amazing View
24 January 2006 | ||
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| Very cold, but crystal clear... Later on, giant balloons floated across the landscape... | ||
Fantastic Day
24 January 2006 | ||
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| Skiing these days was amazing... Best I ever experienced.... | ||
Alpengluehen
24 January 2006 | ||
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| Glowing of the Alps | ||
Afterglow of the Horn
24 January 2006 | ||
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| ...going dimmer every second... | ||
More Sunset Mountains
24 January 2006 | ||
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Summertime is Macro Time
14 April 2007 | ||
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| And it's not even Summer yet! | ||
Snow melting fast...
14 April 2007 | ||
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| ...as if there was much on the Horn this year. | ||
Wild Emperor
15 April 2007 | ||
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| That's the name of this set of mountains. Here the right part with the Ackerlspitze. When we looked at this, my Dad promised me to take me up here this year. | ||
The whole Group
15 April 2007 | ||
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| Of the Wild Emperor Mountains. | ||
Ellmauer Tor
15 April 2007 | ||
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| The Ellmau Gate. Above there is an area called 'Fleischbank' - the Butcher's Table - when we were there last time, a climber fell again and was flown off to hospital. | ||
Winter Sky
7 December 2007 | ||
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| Flying back from Athens.... | ||
Winter Sky
7 December 2007 | ||
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New Years Eve
31 December 2007 | ||
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| We made a walk across town... and stopped at the graveyard... This year I had enough of parties in Munich and spent the day with my parents. | ||
Fireworks...
1 January 2008 | ||
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| The little village goes nuts over them... | ||
And Smoke...
1 January 2008 | ||
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| ...to prove it... | ||
Roman Candles
1 January 2008 | ||
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| My mum lit them up... | ||
Kitzbüheler Horn
1 January 2008 | ||
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Kitzbüheler Alpen
1 January 2008 | ||
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| The Alps of Kitzbühel as seen from the Harschbichel... | ||
Cross-Country-Skiing
2 January 2008 | ||
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| This is where I realized that my warm mountain jacket was totally unsuitable for Cross-country skiing. | ||
Schwenter Bauern
2 January 2008 | ||
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| The farm where I used to stay as a kid as seen from the Cross-country slope. In the background the Wilder Kaiser. | ||
Barn
2 January 2008 | ||
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Uno-time
25 February 2008 | ||
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| Later in front of a warm Kachelofen | ||
Creepy Flower
3 May 2008 | ||
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Maple Flower...
3 May 2008 | ||
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